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  This is a glimpse of beautiful hot drink, it brings rejuvenate warmth and comfort. The past few days, here was so cloudy and gloomy, sometimes the rains just pouring for few hours as monsoon seasons in Bali just approaching. The weather just right for something warm to find comfort, something which easy but magic Wedang Jahe “ Ginger honey drink flavoured with pandanus leaf “ I remembered what my mom do in every cold weather when I was a young girl, she made the best wedang jahe for the entire family, watched her making the magic drink in our humble kitchen--she was happy doing her part, creates some love drink for us--slowly boiled the drink along with ginger and pandanus leaves and she has memorable message to me which can not be forgotten… “ jangan lupa masukkan daun pandan, biar wangi “ which means “add-in the pandan leaf for your wedang jahe to let it sweet-scented” Oh, I adore her as a mother, her caring and her comfort to all of us in the ...

Since I have been living in Bali for exactly a year, it never crossed in mind to just discover and exploring an authentic Balinese food and typical Balinese restaurant. Yes I know, all of that are because of my little man still stealing the show of our life and he needed our full attentions--we are putting our full concern on him. We are almost skipping everything in our primary needs to be secondary needs, although we have remain grateful. And guess what, definitely we are so lucky that finally its time to come, perfect! our son starts walking exactly when he turns one--he is toddler now. Frankly its no needed to be worried when we have plan of having fun eating out just to get pleasure enjoyable as a family. A great place we were discover that night, called “ Bumbu Bali ” this restaurant offer you very full of drooling balinese food dishes on their menu, from the famous ayam betutu, sate lilit , bebek betutu, babi guling, lawar bali and many more. I bet y...

    Afternoon tea at Asam Garam-villa Balquisse Tea : homemade ginger tea Props : Jenggala keramik -Bali

Its hard not to like jagung bakar--it's grilled and greasy but its tasty, perhaps I would not go from the vendor push cart until I satisfied to eat again and again The flavour, oh just right to my liking, salted and spicy--classic ! To me jagung bakar is an intresting snack, the snack that always makes me appetizing and I can’t effort to just immediately turn a blind eye It was quite late evening when I photographed the vendor of jagung bakar at jimbaran beach area, there were quite number of people who keen for those yummy and scrumptious jagung bakar What grabbed me most about this treat, that the skilfulness of the vendor the lively and vigorous movement as he turns the corn from the fire while fanning using a traditional fan, it gives me totally tremendous performance   Street vendor grill Corn, Jimbaran beach, Bali

I have got an email from my husband, when i clicked to open, i was so amaze by seeing the pictures contains and this is definitely what we called awesome! “ How to seal a bag and make it air-tight !” The First thing that comes to my mind is to redo the picture so that's understandable. The guy who first thought of the idea must be given an award for imagination and originality !!! Wow, what a fantastic idea! Don't have to grapple with rubber bands, spring clips or twist ties. Steps   Cut up a disposable water (or similar) bottle and keep the neck and top Insert the plastic bag through the neck and screw the top – to seal. The bottle is made to be air-tight, such that water will not leak, the secret lies with the top and screw!

I had one nightmare of cooking chicken curry few years back, to me the taste was awful, it was really putting me off  and I am certainly say to my self that kare ayam would never ever serve in my daily menu. I thought, I would not make kare ayam (chicken curry) ever again, so rather than frustrated me over and over again, I have decided NOT to cook this dish anymore. Until one sunny day, I have received a surprise package from a very good fellow blogger of mine, Elsye , Thank you very much ! She had send me such a useful recipes books, one of them include kare ayam recipe. This the time I could say that I am back on track! Cooking kare ayam from scratch again ! When I read the recipe, I was impressed by the ingredients and I imagined that it would hit the spot of my lunch *looking forward . To be honest, at that time I take my time to make everything on place by followed the tried and true recipe. I just twisted a minor part of the recipe by using only...

Another Menadonese cuisine I have reveal here is sup Brenebon and its actually influenced by foreign colonial Dutch, “Bruin” is brown and “Boon” is bean Minahasan cuisine featured heavy use of meat therefore sup brenebon is traditionally added the meat such pork meat, pork shank or beef meat Sup Brenebon made of red kidney bean, stewed and spiced with nutmeg, white pepper and cloves, you might imagine that the combinations of deep flavor and aroma it gives perfectly drool. I must honestly say that my sup brenebon has been short cut, simple and easy method, no sautéed, no oil, I just add in all the ingredients in the boiling water and then perfectly stewed. As an alternative of adding pork meat or beef meat I used mince beef, no special reason behind, merely exploring my inquisitiveness     Sup Brenebon Menadonese red kidney bean soup, spiced with white pepper, nutmeg and cloves 3-4 cups red kidney bean (soak over night) Min...